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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ...

by: Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801

Publication date: 1797

Topics: Diplomatic relations, Travel, China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China, China, Great Britain

Publisher: London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Volume: v.3

3 v. : 22 cm (8vo, v. 1-2), 57 cm (fol., v. 3)

Engraved frontispiece port. of Qianlong, v. 1, after William Alexander, the expedition's draughtsman. Frontispiece of Earl Macartney, v. 2, after painting by T. Hickey. Engraved illustrative tail-pieces. Plates mostly after Alexander by various engravers. Maps by B. Baker after John Barrow's drawings

Vol. 2 has separate added title page, plate vol. does not

Addeddate: 2017-01-09 19:26:34

Associated-names: Alexander, William, 1767-1816; Baker, B. (Benjamin), active 1766-1824; Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848; Bulmer, William, 1757-1830; Nicol, G. (George), 1740?-1828